To:V. M. KASPAROV

Written:Written after July 18, 1914Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent to Berlin.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages422b-423a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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DearFriend,

Willyou please take it upon yourself to keep us in formedduring
the revolutionary days in
Russia.[1]

Wehave no newspapers.

Willyou please

1)sendus daily (by ordinary book-post)Berlinnews papers
giving thefullestnews from Russia (Vorwärts, better
still, say,Berliner
Tageblatt[2]; choose which has most reports from Russia);

2)dittoRussian newspapers fromSt. Petersburg and Moscow(we
have onlyKievskaya Mysl)—Rech,Novoye Vremya(since the beginning of the July days)...

3)telegramsconcerningspecial, exceptionally important
events, if any, such as revolts among the troops, etc.

Myaddress for everything (including telegrams)—Ulianow(only two words).Poronin.

Weshall pay expenses. Write a postcardimmediatelywhether you
undertake to do this (I hope you won’t refuse) and how much money we should
send.

(Therates for mail and telegrams here are the same as thoseinsideGermany.)

Awaitingyour reply,Yours,Lenin

P.S.Please send us also cuttings fromVorwärtsabouteverythingrelating to the Brussels conference of 16–18.VII.1914
and the “bloc” there (Rosa+Plekhanov+Alexinsky+liquidators, etc.).

[1]Meaningthe strikes and demonstrations held in St. Petersburg, Baku,
Riga and other cities in the course of July 1914.

[2]BerlinerTageblatt und Handelszeitung—a German bourgeois
news paper, published from 1872 to 1939.